Gaurav Sharma

Gaurav Kumar Sharma is Black Belt Academy leader for Cisco Asia Pacific, Japan and Greater China (APJC). In this role, he is responsible for driving Black Belt Academy adoption across APJC region with help of campaigns, roadshows, partner dialogues etc. and at the same time collecting vital feedback from Partners around how to improvise Black Belt offerings to suit Partner and Distribution requirements better. Gaurav joined Cisco in 2016, as Systems Engineering Manager, and managed all operations for the APJC Partner enablement team. It was that juncture when the idea of Black Belt Academy came into existence which gradually evolved into an industry trusted enablement framework for Cisco Partners and Distributors globally. He has a passion for talent development, outcome oriented endeavours, driving diversity in both teams and thought. Gaurav loves to lead with a long-term view on vision and strategy and likes to map all actions with organizational goals. Prior to Cisco, Gaurav had led a variety of initiatives including serving as Productivity leader for Cisco’s APJ Systems Engineering team and as a Senior Engineering Manager in Aricent Technologies (a US telecommunications and IT services company.) Gaurav has also worked as Duty Manager in Cisco TAC organization looking after both Aricent and HCL Cisco TAC operations. With overall 20 years of experience under his belt, Gaurav feels truly passionate towards contributing to the evolution of how Cisco enables it’s Partners and Distributors leveraging Black Belt Academy.